"Metanoia"-- Chapter 03: The Fiend

Metanoia-Independent art short film  (2022)

独立艺术短片（2022）

Zhang ZaoZao--Metanoia(Chapter03：The Fiend)

Body and heart

“如果我们的身体是与我们的意识相匹配的材料，那么，它就和我们的意识共同延展，领悟我们所感知的一切， 直至通向遥远的星辰。”

---亨利·柏格森

" If our body is the material that matches our consciousness, then it extends together with our consciousness to comprehend everything that we perceive, until it leads to the distant stars."

---Henry Bergson

打造理想的自我需要不断修复意识和身体构成的宇宙。身体从气味、对话、表情、环境中获得感性体验从而引发意识的反馈。身体是意识和世界相互作用的载体，意识的改变让身体做出相应的调整，并且维持身体与世界的通感连接。在复杂的人类关系中，个体的肉身和意识被共存系统所规训，自我的宇宙成为社会系统的缩影。 那些没有爆发的力量被长期积蓄在身体中，等待在意识改变的时候释放出来，取代不可一世的规训。

Building the ideal self requires constantly repairing the universe of consciousness and the body. The body obtains perceptual experience from smell, dialogue, expression, and environment to trigger conscious feedback.The body is the carrier of the interaction between consciousness and the world. The change of consciousness allows the body to adjust accordingly and maintain its synesthesia connection to the world.In complex human relationships, the individual body and consciousness are regulated by coexistence systems.The self-contained universe becomes the epitome of the social system.Those forces that do not burst are stored in the body for a long time, waiting to be released when the consciousness changes, replacing the arrogant discipline.

废墟中的舞蹈如同抽象艺术的去物质化过程，在抹除物质原有意义的同时，它将精神抽离出原有环境，成为独立的形式。在视频中，赤裸的肌肉诱发身体摆脱了禁锢释放活力；血色碎片掩盖捉摸不透的表情，将原来的意识消解在不完整的身体之中，自我任由一种逃脱式的直觉带入到祭祀般的场景。但身体并没有把逃离的自我引向外部世界，而是让它重归心源。回归并不意味着自我的退缩和衰败，而是自我的觉醒，激发从心源深处扩散出来的离心运动，重塑了身体的外形。

Dance in the ruins is like the dematerialization process of abstract art.While removing the original meaning of material, it removes the spirit from the original environment and becomes an independent form.In the video, naked muscles induce the body to get rid of confinement and release vitality.The blood fragments hide the unpredictable expression, dissolve the original consciousness into the incomplete body.The self allows an escape intuition to bring into a sacrificial scene.But the body does not lead the fleeing self to the outside world, but brings it back to its heart. Return does not mean self withdrawal and decay, but self awakening. It ulates centrifugal movements that spread from the depths of the heart, reshaping the shape of the body.

如同理查德·朗的大地艺术，当身体在荒芜的旷野中行走，它尝试挖掘隐藏在其中的贯通的逻辑，将身体、心源和世界相互连通。当人形的身体被替换成兔子的身体（一个源自生肖且根植于共识基础的载体），意味着新的意识适配了新的身体，艺术家从此替换了自我和世界对接的形态。那些散落在林中的兔子的身体，承载了无数来自心源的冲动和漩涡，将一切卷入到充满生机的个体宇宙之中。

Like Richard Lang's earth art.As the body walks in the barren wilderness, it tries to dig up the penetrating logic hidden within it, connecting the body, the heart, and the world.When the human body is replaced with the rabbit body (a vehicle derived from the zodiac and rooted in the consensus base).It means that the new consciousness corresponds to the new body, and the artist replaces the form of self with the world.The bodies of the rabbits scattered in the forest carry countless impulses and swirl outwards from the heart, drawing everything into the vibrant individual universe.

身体是意识，体验和世界的交汇点。艺术家以身体的直觉、在意义、世界和语言之间游走，以艺术独有的断言式陈述，展现人性的事实。这即体现了意识肉身化的一面，也是一种肉身化的美学表达。

The body is the point where consciousness, experience and the world meet.The artist walks around with her physical intuition, between meaning, the world, and language, and presents the facts of humanity in an assertion unique to art.This reflects the embodiment of consciousness, but also an aesthetic expression of embodiment of consciousness.

撰文：苏磊

新媒体艺术策展人， 当代艺术理论家

原今日美术馆新媒体实验室 执行总监

2022年7月29日

Article author：Su Lei

Curator of New Media Art, a contemporary art theorist

Former Executive Director of the New Media Lab of the Today Art Museum

July 29,2022

2022/07/29

导演，制作，编剧，艺术指导：章藻藻

Director, Film producer, Screenwriter, Art Director：Zhang ZaoZao

副导演：温凌杏

Associate  Director: Wen Lingxing

舞蹈表演：秦宽

Body Performer: Qin Kuan

摄影指导：吉日泰

Director of Photography: Ji RiTai

摄影：庆献

Cameraman:Qing Xian

摄影助理：世瑞

Assistant Cameraman: Shi Rui

观众评论：

Imagine looking through a mirror to a twisted reality, how strange and unsettling it may be. Things that are familiar are now unknown but there is a haunting feeling of recognition that lingers in the air. Now imagine breaking that mirror, breaking through into this other world.

想象一下，透过一面镜子看到一个扭曲的现实，它可能是多么的奇怪和令人不安。熟悉的事物现在是未知的，但在空中徘徊一种萦绕心头挥之不去的认知感。现在想象一下，打破那面镜子，进入另一个世界。

　　---Matt Bird

Fragments de verre（Glass fragments）

Gouttes de sang qui coulent（Drop by drop of blood）

Étrangeté du son et du mouvement （The peculiarity of sound and movement）

Doudous au spectacle, spectacle des doudous（Teddy bears at the performance, teddy bears are performing）

Danse désarticulée, aérienne（Disjointed, dancing in the air）

La chute, le trou, le choc, le noir （Fall, hole, shock, darkness）

Danseur sans visage, oiseau sans aile（A dancer without a face, a bird without wings）

Le calme après la tempête ?（The calm after the storm?）

Toujours la violence ?（Or violence?）

玻璃碎片

流淌的血滴

奇特的声音和动作

泰迪兔置身装置之中 ，泰迪兔也在表演

脱节的，空中的舞蹈

跌倒，洞，震撼，黑暗

没有脸的舞者，没有翅膀的鸟

暴风雨过后平静吗？还是暴力？

　　---An unknown dear French friend

Shattered glass, shattered lives, shattered dreams,the fiendish chimera looms over the landscape of devastated lives.

Compassion, spiritual exploration and reformation, the rabbit brings hope for a better tomorrow.

The creepy place here filled with beauty sunshine.

破碎的玻璃，破碎的生活，破碎的梦，恶魔或是顽童的结合体笼罩着被彻底破坏的景观。

同情、精神探索和改革，兔子为一个更好的明天带来了希望。

这个令人毛骨悚然的地方充满了美丽的阳光。

　　---Frank

I would like to think that the Fiend found what he was looking for in those woods. The story went from evil through madness to serenity.

我认为顽童在树林里找到了他要找的东西。故事从邪恶经过疯狂再到宁静。

　　---Ronan

Zhang Zao Zao's video work  "The Fiend", moves between privacy and sociality .  Visual, auditory, tactile are full of tension.  let people's heart tremble.

章藻藻的视频作品"顽童"穿梭于私密性与社会性之间，视觉、听觉、触觉上均充满了张力，让人心灵震颤。

　　---李丽 陕西师范大学美术学院硕士研究生导师、艺术文化史博士。

　　---Li Li Master tutor of School of Fine Arts, Shanxi Normal University,Doctor of Art and Culture History

The short film is haunting beautiful - I'm very impressed with new work.

短片令人魂牵梦绕的美丽--我对新作品印象深刻。

　　---Benjamin saphiro

'Very impressive  thought provoking atmospheric video'

"非常令人印象深刻的发人深省的大气视频"

　　--- Hugh Reed

　　I feel that the visual impact is great, and the sound effect works very well，Plus the final caption can be seen as a  independent short film. The rabbit makes people think of beauty, happiness, youth and vitality. But the rabbit in the film is a metaphor for all the unknown of the crazy grotesque. It also reminds me a film "The Misty", directed by Frank Dara bonte . Part of the story tells about people's different ideas and countermeasures in despair.

　　个人感觉视觉冲击力很棒，音效也好，加上最后的配文完全可以当做独立短片去看。兔子让人联想美好，幸福，青春有活力，但影片里的兔子隐喻一切未知的疯狂怪诞。同时也让我想起一部电影，由弗兰克·达拉邦特导演的"迷雾"，里面的部分内容讲述了人在绝境中不同的想法与应对办法。

---郭涛